Amarock - wma format questions

[Daniel B. Thurman]

I have several wma file that plays fine on amarock, but then again there
are some wma files that won't play at all.  In the ones that fail, I get a
message saying: "There is no available decoder", it does not say
anything else.

>From what I read about wma format on wiki - there were several kinds
of releases, specifically they talk about 4 distinct formats - none which
are compatable wrt to each other, so would that mean one would need
the 4 different codecs when playing "wma" tagged files?  Geez.

The thing here, is that these wma files plays on windoes media player
just fine, but not amarock - sigh.

Oh yeah - another question - why is it of the *many* windows/linux
wma to mp3 converters fail to convert?  Everything from "specificed
source format could not be read", or "You need to update to directx 8.1
or above", or "Missing/corrupted keys (DRM)".

Does anyone recommend a good wma to mp3 converter?  I would like
to convert all of my wma file into mp3 for universal compatability.

Thanks-
Dan